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“We’re in the heart of the community where we have been traditionally plagued with crime and drugs for many, many years,” ANC 5B Commissioner Vaughn Bennett said. “This is just going to add to it.”

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It’s unfair so many applications for cultivation centers are concentrated in neighborhoods like Ivy City and Trinidad, Bennett said.

“Who’s going to want to move in next to marijuana cultivation?” he asked.

Vaughn is going door to door letting residents like Jolm Adams know what could be moving in to the neighborhood.

"How are they going to deal with security?” Adams asked. “How are they going to deal with people buying their medical marijuana and then turning around and selling it? Those questions needs to be answered."

Adams lives just a few doors from one proposed site on Providence Street NE. Just around the corner, seven more applications for spots on Fenwick Street NE.

“We just fought to get rid of prostitutes,” said resident Lorenzo Crandle.

He said he’s particularly concerned about four applications to grow marijuana directly across the street from a popular gentleman’s club on Queens Chapel Road NE. He’s also worried about a location on New York Avenue NE where five different applicants and as many as 475 plants could end up sharing a building with two churches.